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The album title, a term for decompression sickness, references Radiohead's rapid rise to fame with "Creep"; Yorke said "we just came up too fast". [56] John Leckie , who produced The Bends , recalled that EMI hoped for a single "even better" than "Creep" but that Radiohead "didn't even know what was good about it in the first place". [ 57 ]
EMI were persuaded to make "Creep" Radiohead's debut single. According to Kolderie, "everyone [at EMI] who heard Creep just started going insane" and he and Slade were hired to produce the album. [8] Radiohead took elements of "Creep" from the 1972 song "The Air That I Breathe".
Radiohead's first album, Pablo Honey (1993), preceded by their breakthrough single "Creep", [4] features a sound reminiscent of alternative rock bands such as the Pixies and Nirvana. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The Bends (1995) marked a move toward " anthemic rock ", [ 5 ] with more cryptic lyrics about social and global topics, and elements of Britpop .
The art of Radiohead singer Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood, the artist behind the band’s album covers, will be featured together for the first time in a public exhibition. The exhibition called ...
Oxfordshire teenagers Colin and Jonny Greenwood, Ed O’Brien, Philip Selway, and Thom Yorke called themselves On a Friday when they first formed a band in 1985. Signing to EMI in the early ‘90s ...
Included on REM’s classic album Out of Time and the band’s first top 10 hit in the UK, this upbeat single was also considered as a potential theme song for Friends before frontman Michael ...
Radiohead released their third album, OK Computer, in May 1997. It found the band experimenting with song structures and incorporating ambient, avant-garde and electronic influences, prompting Rolling Stone to call the album a "stunning art-rock tour de force". [46]
[1] [2] Their debut single, "Creep", remains their most successful, entering the top 10 in several countries. Their second album, The Bends, released in March 1995, reached number four in the UK and is certified triple platinum. [1] Radiohead's third album, OK Computer, was released in May 1997. It remains their most successful album, reaching ...